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Top Seven Dangers for Young Workers
Lifting objects | Elevated levels | Knives | Hot substances/objects | Operating/working near mobile equipment | Food slicers | Working near running equipment/machinery
Working with Food Slicers
(Approximately 150 claims a year)Young workers employed in restaurants and supermarkets are at significant risk to injury as a result of working with food slicers. Generally these injuries occur to deli sales clerks, cooks, food service helpers/preparers and retail sales clerks in supermarkets. Around eighty percent of these injuries result in cuts and lacerations. One in 80 claims is an amputation of a finger or thumb. These serious injuries result in significant physical impairment, impacting the injured worker's quality of life.
Booklet
Lockout BK21(PDF 2.4 MB) (Updated: September 2005)
Also available in the following languages:
- 上锁 (Simplified Chinese, PDF 4.9 MB)
- 上鎖 (Traditional Chinese, PDF 4.9 MB)
- ਲੌਕਆਊਟ (ਤਾਲਾਬੰਦੀ) (Punjabi, PDF 6.9 MB)
- Procedimientos de Cierre (Spanish, PDF 3.2 MB)
- Khóa Máy (Vietnamese, PDF 8.9 MB)
Hazard Alert
99-06 Use extreme caution when using meat slicers
Poster
That's gotta hurt: Save your fingers. Use the guards. (PDF 510KB)
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